Ribbed knitted web and making same.



R. W. SCOTT. v

Patented May 20, 1913 2 SHEETS-SHEET I A ML P MA Am Ewa .Q-/ a @wGFG Em I'M- I'M- $4 s- JEN .FWQE

R. W. SCOTT.

RIBBED KNITTED WEB AND MAKING SAME.

APPLIUATIOH FILED APB. 28,1910.

Patented May 20,1913.

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ROBERT W. SCOTT, OE LEEDS POINT, ,NEW JERSEY, ASSIG-N OR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO SCOTT AND WILLIAMS, INCORPORATED, OF CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

EIBB D KNITTED WEB AND MAKING SAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 20, 1913,

Application filed Apr-i128, 1910. Serial No. 558,223.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, RoBEn'r W; Soon, a citizen of the United States, residing in Leeds Point, Atlantic county, New Jersey,

have invented certain Improvements inneedle wales, an object which I attain in the.

manner hereinafter set forth, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in-

Which F1 ure 1 is an exaggerated view of a piece of ri bed knitted web produced in accord-' ance with my invention; Fig. 2 is a similar view illustrating another form of ribbed knitted web embodying my invention, and Fig. 3 is a diagramillustrating the disposition of the knittin instrumentalities in a circular machine o proved web.

The essential feature 'of my present invention is the interlocking of the sinker allps between adjoining needle wales of the we In Fig. 1 of the drawing, 1, 2, 3 and 4 represent successive courses of ribbed web, as re .resentingthe needle wales on one face of t e web and y the needle wales on the other face of the web, and it will be noted that the sinker wales. between the successive needles wales in courses 2 and 4 instead of passing directly from one needle Wale to another, as in an ordinary knitted fabric, pass under the sinker wales of courses 1 and 3, res ectively, so as to effect an interlocking 0 the sinker wales of the courses 2' and 4 of the web with courses 1 and 3 of the same.

In the fabric shown in Fi 2 ordinary courses w alternate with the mterlocking courses. In producing these webs I use a machine having two sets of needles A and B, the needles A being carried by a needle cylinder, needle bed, or other carrier, and t e needles B being carried by a needle dial,

needle bed, or other carrier, as in an ordi-' nary rib knitting machine, it being understood that my invention is applicable to straight knitting machines or to circular knitting machines, and to machines having either sprin beard or latch needles,each set of needles eing combined with the usual r producing my -im-- mechanism for operating th: same so as to cause-the needles to knit. -Alternating with the needles A are a set of points, pins or other loop-retaining devices a, and alterpoints, pins or loop-retaining devices b,

, these devices being combined with mechanism whereby they may be projected so as to receive the knitting yarn or so as to transfer the loops which havelbeen applied to them to the corresponding needles of the other needle carrier, the loop retainers of one needle carrier being, by preference, in .line with the needles of the other needle carrier. a

- In producing the fabric shown in Fig. 1, the yarn is first appliedto-the loop-retainers a and b in the same manner as to the needles in anordinary rib knitting machine, and these loops areretained while yarn is applied to the needles A and B in the same manner as to needles of an ordinary rib knitting machine, and is knitted by, said needles, the loops upon the loop-retainersa and 6 being then transferred to the needlesv nating with the needles B are a similar set of needles A and B, yarn is then-applied to g the loop-retaining points a and b and is retained thereby while another course of stitches in being produced upon the needles A and B, the loops being then transferred from the points a and b to the needles A and B, respectively, and the stitches upon said needles then knocked over on 'said loops. The stitches which are produced from the loop of yarn laid directly upon the needles difi'er in size from the stitches made from the transferred loops," thus providing for the alternation of large and small stitches in the wales of theyveb; I

In order to facilitate production, I prefer to provide the machine with a plurality of yarn feeds, the yarn which is applied to the loop-retaining points being different from the yarn applied to the I needles, although my improved fabric can be produced with ne and the same yarn by retiring the loop-retainers while the yarn is C orrect ion'in Letters PatentNc, 1 ,Q6 2,367.

being applied to the needles and retiring the needles while'the yarn is being applied to.

transferring needles, such for instance as" those shown in my Letters Patent No. 834,7 63, dated October 30, 1906, may be substituted for the transfer points or pins, if desired.

The fabrics shown in the drawing are what is termed one-and-one rib, the ribs of each face of the web being formed by single needle wales, but it will be evident that other forms of rib may be produced by alternating the transfer points with groups of needles in either carrier, depending upon the character of rib desired.=.

I claim: I

1. A ribbed knitted web having sinker wales of some of the courses passing downwardly behind, upwardly beneath and upwardly in front of sinker Wales "of other courses. i

2. A ribbed knitted web having successive courses produced with dilierent yarns and having the sinker wales of some of the courses passing downwardly behind, forwardly beneath, and upwardly in front of sinker wales of other courses. 1

the Patent ()flicc.

[SEAL] Signed an sealed this 17th day of June, A. 1)., 1913.

3. A ribbed knitted web having sinker wales of some of the courses passing downwardly behind, forwardly beneath, and upwardly in front of sinker wales of other courses, the latter courses being composed of different yarn from the courses first mentioned, and having stitches difiering in size from those of said first mentioned courses.

5. The mode herein described of producing' a ribbed knitted web, said mode consisting in forming a course of loops disposed alternately in different faces of the web, knitting a course of stitches alternating with said loops, and drawing loops in one face of the web through stitches in the other face of the same. I y

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' ROBERT W. SCOTT.

Witnesses:

- KATE A. BEADLE, v HAMILTON D. TrmNER.

[t is hereby certified that in Letters Patent N0.'1,062,367, granted May 20, 1 913, upon the application of Robert W. Scott, of Leeds Point, NewJersey, for an improvement in Ribbed Knitted Webs and Making fiame, an error appears in the printed-specification requiring correction as follows: Page 2, line 22, for the word upwardly read forwardly; and that thesaid Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to; the record of the case in o. c. BILLINGS,

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C orrect ion'in Letters PatentNc, 1 ,Q6 2,367.

being applied to the needles and retiring the needles while'the yarn is being applied to.

transferring needles, such for instance as" those shown in my Letters Patent No. 834,7 63, dated October 30, 1906, may be substituted for the transfer points or pins, if desired.

The fabrics shown in the drawing are what is termed one-and-one rib, the ribs of each face of the web being formed by single needle wales, but it will be evident that other forms of rib may be produced by alternating the transfer points with groups of needles in either carrier, depending upon the character of rib desired.=.

I claim: I

1. A ribbed knitted web having sinker wales of some of the courses passing downwardly behind, upwardly beneath and upwardly in front of sinker Wales "of other courses. i

2. A ribbed knitted web having successive courses produced with dilierent yarns and having the sinker wales of some of the courses passing downwardly behind, forwardly beneath, and upwardly in front of sinker wales of other courses. 1

the Patent ()flicc.

[SEAL] Signed an sealed this 17th day of June, A. 1)., 1913.

3. A ribbed knitted web having sinker wales of some of the courses passing downwardly behind, forwardly beneath, and upwardly in front of sinker wales of other courses, the latter courses being composed of different yarn from the courses first mentioned, and having stitches difiering in size from those of said first mentioned courses.

5. The mode herein described of producing' a ribbed knitted web, said mode consisting in forming a course of loops disposed alternately in different faces of the web, knitting a course of stitches alternating with said loops, and drawing loops in one face of the web through stitches in the other face of the same. I y

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' ROBERT W. SCOTT.

Witnesses:

- KATE A. BEADLE, v HAMILTON D. TrmNER.

[t is hereby certified that in Letters Patent N0.'1,062,367, granted May 20, 1 913, upon the application of Robert W. Scott, of Leeds Point, NewJersey, for an improvement in Ribbed Knitted Webs and Making fiame, an error appears in the printed-specification requiring correction as follows: Page 2, line 22, for the word upwardly read forwardly; and that thesaid Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to; the record of the case in o. c. BILLINGS,

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